When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 8285R with Scraper Pan by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $510 day rate would be $3,060, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,975.

When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 8285R with Scraper Pan on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $9,350 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

John Deere 8285R with Scraper Pan

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Michael Howard · Row-Crop Tractor

Day: $510
Week: $2,975
28 days: $9,350

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $3,060. On the week rate it is $2,975.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $11,220. On the 28-day rate it is $9,350.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for John Deere 8285R with Scraper Pan, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$510	$510	—	day
2	$1,020	$1,020	—	day
3	$1,530	$1,530	—	day
4	$2,040	$2,040	—	day
5	$2,550	$2,550	—	day
6	$3,060	$2,975	you save $85	week
7	$3,570	$2,975	you save $595	week
8	$4,080	$3,485	you save $595	week
9	$4,590	$3,995	you save $595	week
10	$5,100	$4,505	you save $595	week
11	$5,610	$5,015	you save $595	week
12	$6,120	$5,525	you save $595	week
13	$6,630	$5,950	you save $680	week
14	$7,140	$5,950	you save $1,190	week
15	$7,650	$6,460	you save $1,190	week
16	$8,160	$6,970	you save $1,190	week
17	$8,670	$7,480	you save $1,190	week
18	$9,180	$7,990	you save $1,190	week
19	$9,690	$8,500	you save $1,190	week
20	$10,200	$8,925	you save $1,275	week
21	$10,710	$8,925	you save $1,785	week
22	$11,220	$9,350	you save $1,870	28-day
23	$11,730	$9,350	you save $2,380	28-day
24	$12,240	$9,350	you save $2,890	28-day
25	$12,750	$9,350	you save $3,400	28-day
26	$13,260	$9,350	you save $3,910	28-day
27	$13,770	$9,350	you save $4,420	28-day
28	$14,280	$9,350	you save $4,930	28-day
29	$14,790	$9,860	you save $4,930	day
30	$15,300	$10,370	you save $4,930	day
31	$15,810	$10,880	you save $4,930	day
32	$16,320	$11,390	you save $4,930	day
33	$16,830	$11,900	you save $4,930	day
34	$17,340	$12,325	you save $5,015	week
35	$17,850	$12,325	you save $5,525	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.